Alcock Planning Trial Flight Today
Newfoundland marks a clear spring day as Alcock and crew prepare for a trial flight this week. Brown installs wireless gear while Platford tunes engines. Handley Page crews in Harbor Grace push for first tests in three days.
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Handley-Page
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Alliance Airpane Company
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Conflicting Clues On Lost Aviator Near Poughkeepsie
Dutchess County authorities and Colonel Wheeler of Mineola Aviation Field believe a plane missing for about a week after a Hudson River plunge near Blue Point is the strongest lead in Captain Mansell James disappearance. The craft was last seen heading north with no further contact since.
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Portugal Offers Air Prize To Aviators
The Portuguese government issued a decree establishing a prize of 80 contos for the Portuguese or Brazilian aviator who flies from Portugal to Brazil. The prize aims to stimulate a commercial Lisbon to Brazil aviation route via Madeira the Canary Islands Fernando Noronha and Pernambuco covering about 5400 miles.
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Pernambuco
Navy station to patrol rather than Atlantic nonstop flight
Captain Jubbert F. Paumack of Cape May Naval Air Station said there is no plan for a Cape May to Akron transatlantic run. The 765 mile nonstop attempt completed in 13 hours 10 minutes will stay for patrol duty. The C-5 wreck off Halifax was built at Cape May under Captain Paumack’s supervision.
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Baroness La Roche Sets European Altitude Record
Paris report notes Baroness Tua Roche ascended to 3900 metres 12869 feet at Issy-les-Moulineaux. The flight time was 1 hour 49 minutes. Ruth Law claimed 14000 feet in a 1917 Peoria flight.
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Paris
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Peoria
Navy seaplane commander relieved and reassigned to Paris terms commission
Commander John H. Towers, flight commander of the navy transatlantic seaplane squadron, was relieved of all duties with the squadron today and assigned to service with the Commission for Air Terms now sitting at Paris.
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Washington
John H. Towers
Navy Transatlanti Seaplane
Paris
Pictures of New York Under Lenin’s Rule and War Return
War correspondent Frazier Hunt reports from Paris on Lenin’s Russia describing a paradoxical regime with educational advances and skeptical views on foreign capital. He warned of continued radical government, street violence, and widespread shortages while noting limited factory activity and demoralized transportation. The Von Steuben transport returned with crews and officers bringing home units from Texas and Oklahoma, including the Clover Leaf Division, and mournful memorial wreaths were cast for lost crew members.
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Lahoma
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Wee
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S&th
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Bobbie Chevrueuel
France
St. Nazaire
Wife's Summer Vacation Denied as Legal Necessity
Appellate term of the Supreme Court ruled that a wife's summer vacation is not a legal necessity that requires a husband to cover expenses. The decision comes in Catherine Stevens versus Harry J. Hush, owner of a Summer boarding house at 14 West Seventy Ninth Street. The court found country board during summer not within typical categories analogous to coerced support.
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Harry J. Hush
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